Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.